Woodbury High School - Warrior Yearbook (Woodbury, CT)

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THE WIDE AWAKE Page Seven Nellie Plungis Glee Club 1928-9; Basketball 1928-8; Class Will 1929. “She hath a friendly air and many pleasant wiles.” Nellie is a happy-go-lucky sort of a girl. It is easy to make her peeved, but hard to make her really angry. She’s just bubbling over with wise-cracks and jokes. Our chief delights are seeing her walk out of History class beside Erma Minor, and watching her blush in English. We often wonder if the blushes are all for Miss Sweet. You have to watch these quiet girls. Inez Richmond Class Reported Wide Awake ’27; Editor of Junior Edition of Wide Awake '28; Subscription Contest ’29; Class Salutatorian '29. And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry al she knew.” What will we do without “Inez” to help us with our French, Latin. History and Geometry? Never too busy to help someone else always smiling, always the same generosity personified. And you must admit that even if the W. H. S. cheering squad was a flop, it wasn’t “Inez’s” fault. Jeanette Stone Class Secretary ’25-’26; Class Reporter Wide Awake ’27; Assistant Editor of Wide Awake ’28; Editor-in-chief of Wide Awake '29; Executive Comm, of A. A. Vice President of A. A. ’28; Secretary of A. A. ’29; Cast of Junior play and Senior play; Leader of Subscription Contest '29; Basketball '28-’29; Glee Club '29; Class Valedictorian '29. “A mind that suits With this thy fair and outward character.” All hail! Here comes “Stoney.” Musician, dancer, honor student, tennis champ—what more can you ask for in one girl? Good looking. but not conceited, studious but not a “grind,” talkative but not “catty,” popular but not rushed, well-dressed but not vain—you say it sounds too good to be true? That shows that you don’t know Jeanette.

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Page Six THE WIDE AWAKE Henry Mallette Basketball 29, Class Secretary '29, Honorable Mention Essay Contest ’28, Second Prize Essay Contest ’29, Senior Play 1929. “My body is to frail for my moods.” Henry is a boy who is always expecting trouble. He. well, believes that his teachers accuse him unjustly, girls do not understand him, and that his boy friends are putting something over. It was not until his Senior year that Henry’s talents were revealed. After the basketball season the climax came when as an actor he completely captivated his audience. We’ll not soon forget the grins of Uncle Tom, but although his stage performance was exceedingly smooth, those behind scenes could testify that there were certain slight symptoms of nervousness resulting, wherever he was, in a disturbance of stage setting and a clatter of dishes miraculously saved from being shattered. Henry has literary aspirations and has made a good start. Carolyn Parmelee Basketball ’26, ’28. Class Prophecy ’29 “What is life that we should mean?” Why make so much ado?” Carrie is always smiling, never cross or selfish and ever willing to help with what may be going on. She never worries and all in all that is a delightful sort of person to have around. (We think that the reason for her good nature is that she drinks milk in large quantities.) • Henry Partridge Treasurer Class 28, 1924-25, Cast of Senior Play 1925; Baseball team ’25-’26-’29, President Full-O-Pep Club, Agricultural Judging team, ’26-’27; President of A. A. ’29; President Class of 28, 1926-27; Basketball team ’26; Junior Play, Senior Play, Assistant Business Manager Wide Awake ’28. “An intellect of quite unequalled brilliancy” Athlete, debator, scholar, actor, historian and scientist. We wonder if there’s anything that Henry doesn’t know, only it’s all a wonderful bluff. Henry has been in and out of W. H. S. somuch, that we can’t realize that this is his last year. It’s well understood that someone in Waterbury eagerly watches the batting averages of our baseball team, to see if her big blond hero is still in the lead.

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THE WIDE AWAKE Page Eight POSSIBILITIES OF WORLD PEACE Perpetual peace can be brought about only by getting the real causes of war and taking steps to eliminate them. To get at the real causes of wars we must look back in history. England’s unintentional misunderstanding of our economic problems and conditions was the real cause of the Revolutionary war. The war of 1812 was caused by the desire for gain and the jealousy of the ruling classes inEng-land. The Civil War caused by the South's fear of economic loss or ruin, the South would have been willing to free the negroes if they had thought that by giving the negroes their freedom they would not imperil their economic growth and prosperity. They cannot be blamed for not wanting to free the slaves. The southerners depended upon the slaves to produce their only crop, that of cotton. Before the World War jealousy and fear of economic loss of power caused England to watch Russia more closely than Germany for fear that Russia would gain an outlet to the sea thru Persia. Italy for the same reason was watching closely the moves of Austria, fearful that Austria would gain a seaport on the Mediterranean by some deceitful move. We all know Turkey and Russia have always been enemies just because Russia wants an outlet to the Mediterranean and Turkey is bound Russia shall not have this outlet. These jealousies have caused and will cause many wars unless they are removed. The World War had many causes such as the ambition of the Kaiser, the desire of Germany for economic gain, the greed of the German bankers and their distrust and jealousy of France were the chief contributing causes. Now how can these causes be prevented? Economic need is the most important cause of war and this divides itself into three main divisions:—agriculture, commerce, and industry. Uneven distribution in any one of these three fields may start a war. There is nothing that secures peace so much as economic interdependence, so to create this plain commercial policies and treaties should be made between nations. These treaties should be minus political prejudice and most of all red tape. By political prejudice I mean that commercial treaties between nations should not be constructed on party lines so that there will be economic unrest every Presidential election. The nations should see that their commercial relations are not hampered by excessive, unnecessary, or arbitrary customs or formalities. They should revise customs laws with a view to simplification and adaptation to the needs of foreign trade and the avoidance of all hindrances to such trade. To produce economic interdependence the farmers should be advised on conditions in regard to the production of crops thruout the world, and a means devised to help the farmers of the entire world to find markets for their crops. This would create an international spirit and interdependence. You do not see us fighting Canada or making high custom tariffs against Canadian goods. Why? Because there exists between Canada and the United States an economic interdependence. Canada is more valuable to us economically than in any other way, that is why there is no war between us and if we create this same economic interdependence thruout the world the chances for another war are greatly reduced. Suspicion and distrust between nations can be gotten rid of only by the abolition of secret treaties. The manipulation of natural resources by individual financiers is a similar cause of trouble and the only reason we have not had war on this account is that the South American countries and Mexico have not been strong enough to fight us. The oil barons of the United States have been manipulating the natural resources of these countries for many years and today we have troops stationed in these countries to protect their property while they speculate to our risk and danger. The control of natural resources must be kept out of the hands of speculating financiers who point out mythological reasons for sending troops to South and Central America while the real reason is to protect their selfish interests. Jealousy between countries produces rivalry, hard feeling, and then war. To prevent jealousy we must be frank and outspoken and not try to evade questions when we are asked to explain our actions. A minor cause of war is the ambition of rulers but we have practically nothing to worry about from this source. We need not fear the expansion ambitions of President Hoover. King George. Hindenburg, Poincare or Kemal; only Mussolini is to be feared as an ambitious ruler and it is very doubtful if he would start a war unless he were sure that Italy would benefit greatly economically. We had better keep control of our ambitious bankers and brokers who are more liable to cause a war than any of the men just mentioned. So we find that the real causes of war are; economic need, or greed, jealousy and distrust between nations, ambition of rulers on a small scale and the ambition of our bankers on a large scale. Some people believe that our disarmament conferences are accomplishing a lot toward peace, but they are not because they do not get at the real causes of war. Their work is comparable to taking one machine gun away fro ma Chicago gangster who has four. He can still be as effective at his trade with three machine guns and kill his victims with as much regularity as before. So in the case of nations half hearted disarmament is of no value. President Hoover has become disgusted with these half hearted attempts at securing peace and gave Ambassador Gibson a warning to give to the Geneva Preparatory Disarmament Conference to the effect that all nations lay their cards on the table, have real reduction of all armaments and stop bargaining. Today our newspapers are full of supposedly master mind creations for the purpose of securing peace. These are the efforts of some fame seeking politician and do not go into the real cause of war. All they propose to do is to make some half-hearted attempt at disarmament or to stop using certain weapons in war, such as poison gas or submarines. This plan is the most hopeless for obtaining peace. What is accomplished by forbidding the use of poison gas in war? Does that make it any more decent? Of course it does not. It is true as